October 16, 2019
SHE (AJO)
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription To escape an early marriage arranged by her father, Zana has to make a courageous decision. Bios More Raça is a Kosovar director and writer of short and documentary films. Raça focuses on socialeconomic issues concerning women’s issues and challenges. Apart from her profession, she is actively engaged in the promotion and protection of...
October 16, 2019
SHOPLIFTERS (MANBIKI KAZOKU)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription The winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, SHOPLIFTERS tells the tender story of a family of misfits and grifters struggling to make ends meet, but happily making the most of life together in Tokyo. After finding a young girl out in the cold, Osamu and his wife agree to...
October 16, 2019
ON THE BASIS OF SEX
DescriptionBiosContactDescription ON THE BASIS OF SEX follows the inspiring and spirited true story of young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Academy Award® nominee Felicity Jones) as she teams with her husband Marty (Armie Hammer) to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of gender discrimination. Directed by AFI Conservatory...
October 16, 2019
ONE DAY (EGY NAP)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Anna is a married mother of three with a job, a best friend and a pushy mother-in-law. Dropping us into the world of modern harried parents, ONE DAY begins early in the morning. The youngest wakes up at the crack of dawn and so another day begins: Get the kids up, dressed, fed, out...
October 16, 2019
RAFIKI
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Kena is a teen living in the suburbs of Nairobi, Kenya. Her day-to-day consists of working her dad’s kiosk and kicking around a soccer ball with her boys. Ziki is a bubbly school girl who practices dance routines with her girls. Their paths cross, and the two form an inexorable bond. Amid a community...
October 16, 2019
RAY & LIZ
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription In this immersive debut, director and photographer Richard Billingham returns to the squalid council flat outside of Birmingham where he and his brother were raised, in a confrontation and reconciliation with parents Ray and Liz. As Thatcher-era circumstances progressively worsen in their nicotine-stained, grim existence, familial affection is a rare commodity. With a distinctly...
October 16, 2019
REBIRTH IS NECESSARY
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription A video-art film exploring the magic and dynamism of Blackness in a realm where time and space are altered. Bios Jenn Nkiru is a visionary artist and director from and based in Peckham, London. An MFA graduate in Film from Howard University, her first film EN VOGUE, shot by Bradford Young and Arthur Jafa,...
October 16, 2019
NORMAL APPEARANCES
DescriptionBiosContactDescription An unsettling supercut of the women of #BachelorNation watching themselves being watched. Bios Nonfiction filmmaker Penny Lane has made three features (THE PAIN OF OTHERS, NUTS! and OUR NIXON) and about a dozen short films. Her awards include a Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival. She was admitted into the Academy of...
October 16, 2019
OF FATHERS AND SONS
DescriptionBiosDescription At the outset of Talal Derki’s chilling exposé of children groomed to become jihadi soldiers, the Syrian documentarian echoes his father’s advice: that he should record his nightmares to prevent them from resurfacing. For more than two years, Derki posed as a photojournalist with jihadi sympathies to infiltrate and document the Islamic extremism of...
October 16, 2019
NITRATE KISSES
DescriptionBiosDescription This debut feature from acclaimed lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer is at once an experimental excavation of queer histories, a celebration of difference across communities and a lamentation for histories lost to cultural repression. In this poetic, beautiful and, at times, shocking collage, powerful testimonies from different segments of queer culture reclaim memories from "the...
